# For admirers of Ben Franklin.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011 "2006-07-25T22:00:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/1 "2006-07-25T22:00:38Z")
… (and I count myself among them), the U.S. Treasury has two new commemorative coins: [http://www.usmint.gov/mint\_programs/commemoratives/index.cfm?action=Franklin](http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/commemoratives/index.cfm?action=Franklin) An amazing man: diplomat, civic leader, inventor, publisher, scientist, bon vivant, propagandist, etc. etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/2 "2006-07-25T22:41:02Z")
I think it is an indication of the type of threads I’ve been reading recently that, as soon as I saw your title, I thought to myself “For crying out loud, what did Ben do to deserve this? Someone else bashing a founding father… Who’s next?” I was pleasantly surprised at what I found, and I thank you for posting it! Ben is my oldest sons (10) hero. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/3 "2006-07-25T23:24:41Z")
Ben’s on [stamps](http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10152&storeId=10001&categoryId=16810&productId=22409&langId=-1), too. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/4 "2006-07-26T03:22:53Z")
He wrote about farts. What’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/5 "2006-07-26T03:24:39Z")
The infant Nation’s first International Star. I am not a coin collector, but this is a nice tribute t a great man. He has always been one of Heroes and I believe in many ways the architect of our Nation. Jim ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/6 "2006-07-26T07:05:06Z")
All the above, and you just KNOW he was up to his ears in… _admirers_… all those years in England and France. Papa de sucre extraordinaire. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/7 "2006-07-26T10:12:18Z")
He definitely dunked his quill in all the “inkwells” in Paris. Not only that, he invented an oven, created the first streetlights in Philly, did something with a key and lightning (supposedly), in addition to many many other things. A true renaissance man in the classical sense. I wonder where these people are now? Do they still even exist? Where are our great thinkers? Crap, this should be another thread. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/8 "2006-07-26T14:19:25Z")
The US Mint is doing this? Why not the Franklin Mint? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-admirers-of-ben-franklin/366011/9 "2006-07-26T19:16:34Z")
Cool. We named our younger son after him. He (Ben Franklin, not my Ben) also has his own [action figure](http://www.physlink.com/estore/cart/BenjaminFranklinActionFigure.cfm?SID=56), which I learned about here, of course. Where else could you find people who know about Founding Father action figures?